Color

#c4a8cd

#c4a8cd
hex#c4a8cd
rgbrgb(196, 168, 205)
hslhsl(285, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.06 317.9)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4415

Colors that go with #c4a8cd

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b1cda8

#b1a8cd · #cda8c3

#cdc3a8 · #a8cdc3

Split-complementary

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#c3cda8 · #a8cdb1

#cdb1a8 · #b1cda8 · #a8c3cd

Contrast

#c4a8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9564a6 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #71497e as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.83:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c4a8cd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#c4a8cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4a8cd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #c4a8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4a8cd-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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